Quotes About Doubt

You can never really know someone completely. That's why it's the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they'll take you on faith too. It's such a precarious balance, It's a wonder we do it at all. And yet..

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never been seriously tried.

As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

Hope I dont look weak cuz when a wolf cry wolf you still see that wolfs teeth.

I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.

Almost sure wasn't good enough. Almost sure, in my experience, is the shortest road to oh fuck.

It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

And you know, I believed him. What girl wouldn't?

I wasn't sure if the word boys should mean dim or incomprehensible. I was hovering between the two, with a healthy dose of testosterone-poisoned.

She had done all she could. It didn't feel like enough. Nothing, in fact, ever did.

Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

I think back on all the rooms in all the cities and towns where I wrote the pieces of this book, all the doubt and days of failure but also that knot of stubbornness that's still inside me.

You don't struggle with these questions?" "No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have." "An American flaw.

He seems genuinely happy for me. You can't always count on a guy for that.

Ik zou het nog niet half zo lang hebben volgehouden,' zei ik, maar toen besefte ik dat hij in veel opzichten op de Dobu leek: zijn paranoïde trekjes, zijn zwarte humor, zijn wantrouwen jegens plezier, zijn geheimzinnigdoenerij. Ik ging als vanzelf aan zijn resultaten twijfelen. Als er maar één kenner van een bepaald volk is, zegt diens analyse dan meer over dat volk of over hem? Zoals gewoonlijk was ik meer geïnteresseerd in het raakvlak tussen die twee dan in andere dingen.

Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like a fool for trying....Its all fear. ... Fear holds us back every step of the way.

I believe you. I'm just terrified by what overenthusiasm might look like. If what I am seeing now is underenthusiasm.' 'If you're anything like Fen, you won't like it much.' I guessed I wasn't anything like Fen.

I just find it extraordinary that you think you have something to say.

All problems with writing and performing come from fear. Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like

What's the point of anyone's search for answers? The truth you find will always be replaced by someone else's.

Sometimes i worry about being a success in a mediocre world.

What seems right isn't always right, though, is it?